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Monday, April 20, 2009

April 23rd

Hot House Earth
Capitalism, climate change, and the fate of humanity

7PM - People’s Haymarket Fund
42 Seaverns Avenue, JP
Crisis upon crisis, the urgent need to fundamentally change the self-destructive course of our barbarous “civilization” grows even faster than the piles of waste it creates and condemns us with. From greenhouse gases to garbage, from dumping in Somalian seas to endless wars for oil, from the “free market” to government policy, from recycling to revolution, come to this meeting to learn and discuss the environmental crisis, its causes, issues and solutions.

We organized and marched against Israel's atrocious war on Gaza. Now’s the time to come together and develop strategies to build a sustained movement for solidarity with Palestine in New England. This is a conference for community and student Palestine solidarity activists--experienced and new--to talk about action for solidarity with Palestine.

We have seen in recent decades a growing gap between rich and poor the world over. In the U.S., profits and CEO salaries have skyrocketed while workers' wages stagnated or declined, and corporate greed has plunged the entire world into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Try as one might to dismiss him, Marx keeps coming back. His ideas are alive because his indictment of capitalism. It is a society prone to economic crises and wars that create misery for millions. Marx’ scathing criticism of the capitalist system continues to be confirmed on a daily basis. Paul D’Amato is the associate editor of International Socialist Review. His writing has appeared in CounterPunch, Socialist Worker and Selves and Others.

The world economic crisis has shattered the free-market consensus that has dominated politics for the last generation. Meanwhile, the end of the conservative era and the election of the first African American president have raised expectations among working people that long overdue change is at hand. With capitalism in crisis, even some in the mainstream media are admitting that Karl Marx was right. There has never been a better time for those who want to see fundamental change to get together to debate, discuss and organize for a new society—a society based on the needs of the many instead of the whims of a few. We need to organize a new left to meet the challenge of this new era.
Chicago, Illinois (contact the Boston branch to coordinate travel arrangements)
http://www.socialismconference.org/

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